Psych-adjectives and semantic selection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Idan Landau (0000-0002-5583-1798, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Linguistic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/tlir.1999.16.4.333 |
| OpenAlex | W2064584891 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
A puzzling generalization, first noted by Faraci (1974), states that (non-causative) psychological adjectives tolerate at most a subject gap in their infinitival complement whereas non-psychological adjectives require exactly one gap (either subject or object). This paper argues that the generalization follows from the fact that the infinitive is a (propositional) argument of a psych adjective but a (predicative) modifier of a non-psych adjective. A series of tests (ellipsis, extraction, extraposition and P-stranding) confirms this asymmetry. A-bar binding is responsible for both subject-gap complements to non-psych adjectives and subject-gap infinitival relatives, explaining their crosslinguistic correlation. This strongly suggests that obligatory control does not fall under operator-abstraction, as argued by predicational treatments of control, but rather involves a different mechanism
Linguistics · Natural language processing · Computer Science · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2023 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |